The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.”
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There’s a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are).
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories.
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The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.
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Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors–is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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